The Erasmus + project LIFE newsletter of the 1st year
Curriculum „Teaching and learning English through humour based activities”
Month | Class time | Objective | Activity | Expected Result |
September | 2 academic hours | To explain the importance of humour in language classroom | To use funny sentences illustrating grammar rules | Building the understanding of the significance of humour for higher quality learning |
October | 2 academic hours | To build humour related vocabulary | To do vocabulary exercises, activating new lexical items | Developing humour related vocabulary |
November | 2 academic hours | To present the structure of a humorous story | To practice story-writing in teams, each team concentrating on one structural part (introduction, development, climax, resolution) | Each team masters developing of one structural part |
December | 2 academic hours | To practice writing a humorous story in teams | Each team teachers the other teams the part they have learnt to write during the previous class | Each team writes a complete 250-word-long humorous story |
January | 2 academic hours | To learn about changes of humour throughout the 20th and the 21st centuries | Students search for examples of jokes and short funny stories from different decades, compare and contrast the subjects people used to find funny | Developing understanding of changes in humour, realizing that we do not laugh at the same thing our grandparents did. |
February | 2 academic hours | To learn about humour in literature | Students analyze literary sources picking up bits of humour | Further developing understanding of changes in what is seen as funny |
March | 2 academic hours | To learn about humour in films | Students watch extracts from films dating back to various decades | Further developing understanding of changes in what is seen as funny |
April | 2 academic hours | To put into practice the accumulated knowledge of what was/ is funny | In teams students imitate writing a funny story of various decades and try to guess each other’s decade | Building understanding of cultural differences between generations |
May | 2 academic hours | To finalize the understanding of the structure of the story | Students individually write a humorous story | Students create a 250-word-long humorous story |